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Port Elgin church honours The Glorious Dead

Members of Port Elgin United Church - including the Youth Group - walked 3,600 steps along Goderich St. Nov. 10, honouring the 3,600 Canadians who died at Vimy Ridge in WWI. Frances Learment/Shoreline Beacon

“Its kind of mind-blowing – people not that much older than me sacrificed everything wanted to serve their county,” Port Elgin United Church youth group member Samuel Jack, 14, said before taking the first of 3,600 steps along Goderich St. Nov. 10 – one step for each of the 3,600 Canadians killed in WWI.

Beth Dyer, the youth and child facilitator at the church, said the 100th anniversary of Vimy presented a good youth group activity that other church members embraced.

Youth group member Jason Horseman, 15 walked to remember all fallen soldiers.

“Not just Vimy Ridge, but those who sacrificed everything in WWI and WWII battles and every conflict and peacekeeping effort Canada was involved in